Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars

Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars

by Jay D. Wexler
Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars

Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars

by Jay D. Wexler

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Overview

After ten years spent riddling over the intricacies of church/state law from the ivory tower, law professor Jay Wexler decided it was high time to hit the road to learn what really happened in some of the most controversial Supreme Court cases involving this hot-button issue. In Holy Hullabaloos, he takes us along for the ride, crossing the country to meet the people and visit the places responsible for landmark decisions in recent judicial history, from a high school football field where fans once recited prayers before kickoff to a Santeria church notorious for animal sacrifice, from a publicly funded Muslim school to a creationist museum. Wexler's no-holds-barred approach to investigating famous church/state brouhahas is as funny as it is informative.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807000441
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 06/01/2009
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jay Wexler is a Professor at the Boston University School of Law, where he has taught since 2001. Prior to teaching, Wexler studied religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and law at Stanford Law School. After law school, he worked as a clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court and then as a lawyer in the Office of Legal Council at the Department of Justice. He has published nearly twenty academic articles, essays, and reviews, as well as nearly three dozen short stories and humor pieces, in places like The Boston Globe, Spy, Mental Floss, and McSweeney's. His first book was Holy Hullabaloos.

Table of Contents

Prologue to a Road Trip vii

1 Hasidic Hullabaloo: Destination New York State 1

2 Santeria Skirmish: Destination South Florida 29

3 Amish Agitation: Destination the Cheese State 59

4 Religious Display Ruckus: Destination Austin 90

5 Senate Prayer Suspicion: Destination the Nation's Capital 120

6 Funding Religion Fracas: Destination Cleveland 148

7 Ball-Field Prayer Brouhaha: Destination East Texas 177

8 Creationism Commotion: Destination Kentucky 205

A European Epilogue 234

Acknowledgments 240

Notes 242

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